A word about how each school was rated: The schools were rated based on graduation rate (50%), PARCC test proficiency rate (35%) and chronic absenteeism (15%). Scores were based 50% on overall performance and 50% on the performance of subgroups including special education, economically disadvantaged, African American, or Hispanic. This rating does not take into account any of the special strengths of a particular school and scores could have been affected by students opting out of PARCC testing.